On this day back in 1986, Margaret Thatcher opened the M25 motorway. One of the biggest orbital motorways in Europe, it cost nearly £1 billion to build and has since gone on to be Britain's most infamous motorway…

If preparing for a 3,000-mile charity row across the Atlantic wasn’t stressful enough for Hannah Lawton and Lauren Morton discovering their boat’s trailer had a flat tyre just as they were packing to set off on the start of their epic adventure was a definite stroke of bad luck.

Your breakdown cover doesn't just help when your car breaks down! In 2012 RAC patrols went to the rescue of 44,319 motorists who had been locked out of their vehicles. The good news for drivers, however, is that the number of lock-outs is falling every year as five years ago the figure was nearly 67,000.